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Purging Windows 8 Metro apps

Three months after installing Windows 8, I decided to get rid of the annoying Metro – or Modern if you prefer – apps. The apps are designed for touch screen users – that’s not me. They don’t work well with a keyboard and mouse. What’s more, they look ridiculous on my 24 inch screen.

The thing is, isn’t it easier to copy ‘rm -rf /’ from the ‘net and paste into a commandline and press enter than it is to ‘Go to Start Menu > Right-Click on Computer > Manage > Click on Disk Manager > Right Click on C: > Format > Click OK’

Of course you need to trust what you are typing, but you also need to trust the steps people get you to do as well.

I am against things like these, not because the start menu sucked, but because you are just delaying the inevitable. Eventually you have to use Metro (and won’t have had the chance to learn it) or try something else. In that vein I offer KDE: http://windows.kde.org/ or CairoShell (idk progress on that one). Or Linux or Mac or Android or iOS.